Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Computers and Information - Department of Information Systems

The most important measure that must be considered in any software product, is its Design Quality. The design phase takes only 5-10 % of the total effort but a large part (up to 80%) of total effort goes into correcting bad design decisions. If a bad design is not fixed, the cost for fixing it after software delivery, is between 5 and 100 times or higher. Researches on object-oriented design metrics have produced a large number of metrics that can be measured to identify design problems and assess design quality attributes. However, the use of these design metrics is limited in practice due to the difficulty of measuring and using a large number of metrics

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